A woman who was paralysed from the neck down after a ski accident has learnt to paint with her MOUTH - to show "resilience" after "tragedy".

Rebecca Koltun, 24, was on a college ski trip in Vermont, US, when she fell and knocked herself unconscious.

She was alone at the time and had no pulse for 10 minutes before a stranger found her.

Rebecca was rushed off the mountain by the ski patrol and taken to Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Centre, New Hampshire.

There she woke up to be told she has a C1-C2 spinal cord injury and she could no longer move her limbs or breathe on her own.